The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.
But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.
O, that’s what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain, – never suffer anything, – not even hear a sad story, when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives, – it seems selfish. I ought to know such things, I ought to feel about them!
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.
Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?
The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune.
Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed.
His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray’s Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.
Now is all the time I have anything to do with,” said Miss Ophelia.
I tell you,” said Augustine, “if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the upper one.
It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.
In the midst of life we are in death,‘” said Miss Ophelia.
One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no, – they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm.
We ought to be free to meet and mingle, – to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principals of human equality.